woMen's March: The Decline and Fall of Feminism

If men are not centered in your feminism, it is actual feminism

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I don’t call myself a feminist because I was born with a penis. Feminism, by definition, is supposed to center women and girls, i.e. non-penis people. Although I do read feminist writers and support feminists everywhere, this does not make me a feminist. At best, it makes me a supporter of feminism, a friend of feminist ideas, and a friend of feminists. I am not a feminist because I do respect feminism, and whenever feminism centers a penis-person, it stops being feminism, transforming instantly into patriarchy.

Now, I am also not the right person to decide “who the real feminists are,” but as a penis-person, I do know what a men’s rights movement looks like. It looks like that, up there: the new logo for the “Women’s March,” which famously burst onto the political scene in January 2017, responsive to the election of Donald Trump.

It is meant to be more “inclusive” than the old logo, …